Australian politicians bought Nazi artefacts, auction house director claims

Gold Coast auction house sold a huge collection, including a photo album of concentration camps and signed pictures of Hitler, ahead of a federal ban on the display and sale of Nazi symbols

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An Australian auction house that sold an extensive collection of Nazi artefacts online has defended the sale by stating politicians were among the buyers.

Jewish groups are outraged at the sale of the “blood-stained items” that included signed pictures of Hitler, Himmler and Rommel, a striped concentration camp cap, a “Jewish winter overcoat” with yellow star attached, picture albums of dead soldiers and POWs and personal photo albums of SS officers.